"Leslie Malcolm McNaughton was born October 2, 1894 and was killed March 13, 1918 in a tragic plane crash (Hampton Roads, VA.) An undergraduate at Yale University, Leslie joined a Yale Flying Squadron, and left Yale to become a pilot during World War I. He was killed 10 days after marrying his childhood sweetheart, Madeline Gibson, of Hudson Falls NY. Leslie is buried in Prospect Hill Cemetery Schuylerville, New York."

-The MacNaughtons of Argyle, by James MacNaughton, Jr.,1994, page 117

Other records show he died in France and that his Naval Station was Hamptons Roads, VA.